The k-anonymity technique is widely used to provide location privacy protection for accessing location-based services (LBS), i.e., the exact location of a query initiator is cloak...
The skyline operator was first proposed in 2001 for retrieving interesting tuples from a dataset. Since then, 100+ skyline-related papers have been published; however, we discove...
Increased availability of large repositories of chemical compounds has created new challenges and opportunities for the application of data-mining and indexing techniques to probl...
This paper presents a transaction-time HTTP server, called ? Apache that supports document versioning. A document often consists of a main file formatted in HTML or XML and severa...
We illustrate that Web searches can often be utilized to generate background text for use with text classification. This is the case because there are frequently many pages on the...